different between garment vs noggen

English

Etymology

From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from garnir (“to garnish, adorn, fortify”), from Frankish. More at garnish.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /????.m?nt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????.m?nt/
• Hyphenation: gar?ment

Noun

garment (plural garments)

1. A single item of clothing.

   • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

2. (Mormonism) Short for temple garment.

Derived terms

• foundation garment
• touch the hem of someone's garment

Related terms

• garnish
• garrison

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:clothing

Translations

Verb

garment (third-person singular simple present garments, present participle garmenting, simple past and past participle garmented)

1. (transitive) To clothe in a garment.

Translations

Further reading

• garment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• garment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• garment at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• margent

English

Adjective

noggen (not comparable)

1. Made of flax or hemp

Noun

noggen (uncountable)

1. Coarse linen; a garment made of this.

See also

• noggin

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• nonegg